Missouri S&T design team experience prepares students for success in whatever endeavor they may choose.

Design team membership is open to, and encouraged of, students of any major, interest, background or age, and provides an immediate sense of community to students new to the college experience.

These student-led teams, whether competing with racecars or rockets, concrete canoes or robots, learn the organizational problem-solving process essential for the successful development of a market-ready product. Business, marketing, logistics, communications and teamwork skills that design teams incorporate in their day-to-day operations mirror the global design process used in industry world-wide.

Design team members network with industry professionals and students from competing schools alike, forming personal and professional realtionships that can lead to rewarding careers.

S&T design team veterans "know how to think on their feet, don’t mind getting their hands dirty, and are ready to contribute on their first day at work” say many firms who hire our team members, and why so many businesses aggressively recruit S&T students with design team experience.

Twenty interdisciplinary design teams provide over 1,300 S&T students with leadership, networking and technical learning opportunities through industry-sponsored design competitions. Other students get life-changing global experience by tackling economic and health—related infrastructure problems in developing nations.

Each team mirrors our philosophy of “Learn, Succeed, Have Fun," so sign up and have some fun!

Baja SAE

Grown up dirtbikes

"Design, Build, Race, Wreck, Repeat." Develop and operate a prototype off-road vehicle for a hypothetical market. Blend cost with capability, season with durability, and then spend four hours trying to destroy it.

powered by chemistry

Concrete Canoe

Old material, new tricks

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There isn't much of a market for concrete canoes, but there is a market for young engineers who can "bend" materials to their will. Re-engineer concrete so it can't sink, then prove it by chasing other universities' canoe teams around a lake.

Engineers Without Borders

different countries, same goal

Not a competion in the sense of other S&T design teams, S&T-EWB takes on real-world problems in under-developed conmunities. Students establish multi-year parterships with remote communities in Central and South America to solve health, economic, and quality-of-life challenges. Their sanitation and clean water projects save lives.

Formula SAE Racing

MINERS GO FASTER

Learn global automotive product development from the seat of a car that provides nearly 3 G's of acceleration. In the past five years S&T FSAE has twice been ranked among the world's top ten teams, (98th percentile) and sat atop the list of U.S. teams for 2016-2017.

Liquid-fueled Rocket

Mars Rover

TODAY. TOMORROW. FOREVER.

When astronauts reach the surface of Mars they'll need a different kind of "assistant." Design prototype Mars rovers today that will go to the Red Planet tomorrow, and expand mankind's knowledge of the cosmos forever.

Nuclear Science

A FUTURE WITH FUSION

Develop an original idea or concept related to the nuclear field, write a paper about it and submit it to a national competition. But the Miners will go one step further, building their own Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusor to prove their theories.

Rocket Design Team

ROCKET DESIGN TEAM

Learn a NASA-like process for building rockets. Produce your own rocket fuel to launch your high-powered rocket to 30,000 feet. Then enlist middle- and high-school students to design your scientific payloads. Keep your eyes on the sky.